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Nice and locked down with only Apple approved apps. Do not want.

• noodle 17y ago
  i can only hope that either because this isn't a phone, a more robust modding community will develop around it, or that a more developer-friendly tablet will be released shortly.
• alttab 17y ago
  Another wave of developers trying to make it rich by going through the AppStore. Let the nightmares begin? The minute there is no middle man on a competent mobile device (Android is getting there), Apple could lose a lot of business.
  • thaumaturgy 17y ago
    There are plenty of other MP3 players out there, but they haven't hurt the iPod (much). Google is great at certain things, but UI is not one of them. Their user experience suffers the Linux Problem: it's perpetually unfinished and incomplete, and regular computer users just don't like it. (Techs love it though.)
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• akeefer 17y ago
  I'm guessing their target market for the iPad won't really care too much about that; plenty of non-technical laptop users already have enough trouble installing/uninstalling software, so something like the app store that makes it easy to find and install stuff, and safe to do so, is probably actually a win for those people.